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...listen to anything." An executive from a rival company has similar thoughts. He declares that he won't change editorial content to please China's censors. "But," he adds, "given the size of the investment, the new policy does encourage broadcasters to be cautious. No one wants to ruin their chances." If the plan goes through, China's couch potatoes are in for a whole lot more programming?though it might be so mild they'll yearn for the good old days of pirated signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tying Up the Tube | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Miles to Graceland blares in the background, he talks about how Laos is at an inflection point. "It could become this really cool place, or it could just turn to s___," he says, exhaling pot smoke. Dillon concedes that a strip of bars and restaurants blaring videos would ruin the backwater ambiance. "But you've got to give the people what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pipe Dreams | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...1990s and that when the Levy story broke, she wanted to tell the FBI about her relationship in an effort to help find the missing intern. According to McKay, Dayton urged her to remain quiet, saying, "Leave it in the past, or it will ruin you." That could amount to obstruction of justice. (McKay said she went to the FBI despite Dayton's warning.) Dayton told reporters last week that McKay's version isn't true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Hot Lights: Gary Condit's Cowboys | 7/29/2001 | See Source »

...here to try to block this--we want to cooperate to make it a responsible, sustainable development and stop the 'rape, ruin and run' approach of some of these companies," says Morrison. The council advises ranchers like Dube on their rights and helps them find lawyers and make surface-disturbance agreements with the gas companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil and Gas Drilling: Plumbing The Pasture | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...most passionate voices belong to homeowners like Paul Martin, a businessman whose hundred or so acres lie within the monument's outer boundaries. "The only people who want to shrink the boundaries are timber companies and cattle owners," he says. "If you don't believe they ruin the land, imagine what your street would look like after a cow or a logger with a chainsaw spent some time there. I don't understand why they insist on ruining this tiny speck on the map when they have millions of acres nearby they're allowed to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Logging: Free-For-All In A Forest | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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